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Exhibition History The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

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1. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[4], 47, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 x 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].

A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].
Creator:
Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
Date:
approximately 1798-1799
Physical Description:
518 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice ... Being an attempt to make the art of perspective easy and familiar; to adapt it intirely to the arts of design; and to make it an entertaining study to any gentleman who shall chuse so polite an amusement. By Joshua Kirby, painter ...

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice ... Being an attempt to make the art of perspective easy and familiar; to adapt it intirely to the arts of design; and to make it an entertaining study to any gentleman who shall chuse so polite an amusement. By Joshua Kirby, painter ...
Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., 50 plates. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.
Creator:
Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[4], ii, xiv, 71, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[ca. 1801]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Chinese landskips.

Chinese landskips.
Date:
[ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the art of drawing, painting, statuary ... : in two books : containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty as exhibited in ancient sculpture : with a new method of sketching heads, natural features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy ... : illustrated with seventeen plates explanatory of the professor's leading principals / translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan ...

The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the art of drawing, painting, statuary ... : in two books : containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty as exhibited in ancient sculpture : with a new method of sketching heads, natural features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy ... : illustrated with seventeen plates explanatory of the professor's leading principals / translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan ...
Creator:
Camper, Petrus, 1722–1789
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 175 p. [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
8 p., 105 leaves of plates on 85 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
iv, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

11. Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.

Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
Creator:
Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645
Date:
MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:
[4], 81 leaves, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (326 emblems on 81 plates) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[177-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A method to learn to design the passions : proposed in a conference on their general and particular expression / written in French and illustrated with a great many figures excellently designed by Mr. Le Brun, chief painter to the French king ... ; translated into English and all the designs engraved on copper by John Williams ...

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
xii, [11]-58 p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1698]
Physical Description:
[3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts